You can try to interpret and understand a substance by means of its shadow but by doing that it really just becomes a guessing game.  At what angle is the light hitting the object to make it cast such a shadow, what type of light, in what environment? Religion has been trying to use this technique as a means to interpret and understand the divine for too long; by using the bible, the law, moral codes, and formula after formula after formula. It’s a dead end of blind leading the blind straight into a ditch. 

Maybe the only way to really understand the divine is by understanding that we are his/her image and likeness. When we undoubtedly see that we co-exist as God and Human and when we see that we are joined at the hip we will see a much clearer picture and have a shimmering transcendent reference point.